

Delivering high-quality MiniDV footage and decent still images, the Panasonic PV-GS320 should appeal to advanced amateurs searching for a tape-based camcorder....

The Panasonic PV-GS320 is a light-bodied MiniDV camcorder with a 2.7 inch built in LCD screen. The camcorder’s three 800,000-pixel CCD sensors are among the best available, making image quality and accuracy among the highest in MiniDV camcorders....

Records sharp, clear video; modestly priced for a 3-CCD camcorder. Cons: No external microphone input; no headphone jack; inconvenient placement of computer interface ports and SD Card slot....

The Panasonic PV-GS320 replaces the 2006 award-winning Panasonic PV-GS500. The Panasonic PV-GS320 looks like a slightly slimmed-down version of that model....

As Panasonic's top MiniDV camcorder, and the company's only tape-based standard-definition 3CCD model, you'd be right to expect a lot from the PV-GS320. You'd also most likely be happy with this camcorder, as long as you're not expecting prosumer-level...

Very affordable, reasonably high quality...Not very attractive, poor battery - life...Since discovering the Panasonic NV GS320 last week, I have been slaving over this question, pondering and musing, desperately trying to seek a definitive answer...But...
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